REFRACTED THEATRE COMPANY
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Mission Statement
At Refracted Theatre Company, we make work that disrupts our socially accepted narratives by illuminating another side of the story. We’re complicating the story around: The relationships you’ve had. The history you’ve read about (and continue to write.) The characters you’ve met, both fictional and otherwise. We refract black and white thinking through the prism of theatrical storytelling to reveal a spectrum of colorful complexity. Come to our theatre with your preconceived notions of who you are, what the story is, and how theatre feels and works. We humbly ask for your consent to fuck it up.
About This Cause
Refracted Theatre Company was started by Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors Graham Miller and Tova Wolff. Both theatre directors, Graham and Tova met at the 2017 Directors Lab Chicago, an invitation-only directors’ think-tank and practicum. Like clockwork, they fell “in love” with each other on day one, as both friends and artistic professionals. While their friendship grew, they directed projects that dealt with public perceptions of historical icons/villains (depending on who you ask) and how the polarization of public opinion had shaped these real life characters as human beings. They realized that their mutual interest in “the untold stories”—surrounding issues of feminism, queerness, identity, and family—was a ripe foundation on which to build a company. Graham and Tova worked together to assemble a team of up-and-coming professionals, all either theatre artists in their own right or deeply involved theatre-lovers, who work boldly and tirelessly to bring the team’s collective artistic vision to fruition. They are proud to run a company that prioritizes the representation, inclusion, and/or hire of any and all minorities that are underserved, underrepresented or misrepresented. We are a company that produces stories that promote an empathic and full conversation around oppression and representation. At its core, we’re a company that reminds human beings how to be more human. The truth, like a prism, has many sides, and in order to see the light, we ask to show you the spectrum of colors that comprise it.